Usually means: Taking control of a space.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. occupying: Merriam-Webster
  2. occupying: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. occupying: Collins English Dictionary
  4. occupying: Vocabulary.com
  5. Occupying, occupying: Wordnik
  6. occupying: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. occupying: Wiktionary
  8. Occupying, occupying: Dictionary.com
  9. occupying: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Occupying: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Occupying: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. occupying: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. occupying: FreeDictionary.org
  14. occupying: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. occupying: Legal dictionary

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  1. occupying: Encyclopedia

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  1. occupying: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Occupy)

verb:  (transitive, of time) To take or use.
verb:  To fill.
verb:  To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of.
verb:  To fill or hold (an official position or role).
verb:  To hold the attention of.
verb:  (transitive) To take or use space.
verb:  To fill space.
verb:  To live or reside in.
verb:  (military) To have, or to have taken, possession or control of (a territory).
verb:  (surveying) To place the theodolite or total station at (a point).
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with.
verb:  (obsolete) To do business in; to busy oneself with.
verb:  (obsolete) To use; to expend; to make use of.
noun:  Synonym of OWS (“"Occupy Wall Street" protest movement”)
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